Commanders of combat units have traditionally desired as much information as possible to aid them in making key decisions. Ironically, we have reached the stage where there is now too much information available. A commonly proposed solution is to utilize software agents to collect information, select what is useful, and deliver it to the commander. By their nature, software agents are active, d...

Charles A. Morgan III*, Gary Hazlett, Anthony Doran, Stephan Garrett, Gary Hoyt, Paul Thomas, Madelon Baranoski, Steven M. Southwick Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Law and Psychiatry Division, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519-1187, USA Major, JFK Special Warfare Training Center and School, Uni...

This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out early modern narratives visuals (particularly maps). These overlapping models, for the long sixteenth century, are: 1) itinerary; 2) empire; 3) predator, all which appear under broader frame geographic-commercial is either conflicted or pacific. I employ a preliminary narrative, The Deeds Commander Pietro Mocenig...

The US military is an information-rich, computer intensive organization. It needs to have easy, understandable access to a wide variety of information. Currently, information is often in obscure computer notations that are only understood after extensive training and practice. Although easy discourse between users and machines is an important objective for any situation, this issue is particula...

In 2003 an unusually forthcoming U.S. battalion commander told the New York Times how he would win Iraqi hearts and minds: “With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.”[1] To Roger Petersen, an MIT political scientist, this statement epitomizes the problem with Western military intervention–a proble...

machines that can interact with them as they interact with each other. Science fiction writers have given us these goals in the form of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, at present, our computers are deaf, dumb, and blind, almost unaware of the environment they are in and of the user who interacts with them. In this article, I present th...

Command and Control (C2) system and its interfacethe Common Operational Picture (COP) are main means that supports commander in its decision making process. COP contains information about friendly and enemy unit positions. The friendly position is gathered via tactical network. In the case of tactical network failure the information about units are not available. The tactical simulator can be u...